Supreme Court News

Ohio man sentenced for writing racial hate letters

AP - Tue Aug 26, 3:54 PM ET

CLEVELAND - A man who wrote hundreds of threatening letters over 20 years to black and mixed-race men — including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter — was sentenced Tuesday to three years and 10 months in prison.

  • British Muslims Ruhal Ahmed (L) and Shafiq Rasul (R), who are former detainees of Guantanamo Bay US detention camp speak to reporters during a press conference in Tokyo in 2007. Four Britons released from Guantanamo in 2004 after two years' detention, requested the US Supreme Court to rule on the right of prisoners "to worship and ... not to be tortured."(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)
    Ex-Guantanamo detainees appeal to US Supreme Court AFP - Mon Aug 25, 5:52 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Four Britons released from Guantanamo in 2004 after two years' detention, requested the US Supreme Court to rule on the right of prisoners "to worship and ... not to be tortured."

  • Lawsuits help guarantee drug safety, doctors say AP - Fri Aug 15, 5:02 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Top doctors at the helm of one of the nation's most influential medical journals are giving the Supreme Court some unsolicited legal advice about a major case.

  • In this May 1, 2008, file photo, a customer pumps gas at an Exxon station in Middleton, Mass. Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, July 31, the biggest quarterly profit ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results were well short of Wall Street expectations and its shares fell as markets opened. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)
    No decision on Exxon Valdez interest payments AP - Tue Aug 12, 8:34 PM ET

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay interest on punitive damages awarded in the nation's worst oil spill.

  • This undated photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Huntsville shows death row inmate Heliberto Chi. Texas Thursday put to death the Honduran national after the US Supreme Court rejected a final attempt to halt his execution on grounds it violated a bilateral treaty.(AFP/TDCJ-HO)
    Texas executes Honduran man convicted of murder AFP - Fri Aug 8, 9:19 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Texas Thursday put to death a Honduran national after the US Supreme Court rejected a final attempt to halt his execution on grounds it violated a bilateral treaty.

  • USA The Christian Science Monitor - Thu Aug 7, 4:00 AM ET

    Texas carried out the execution of Mexican national Jos?? Medellin Tuesday in Huntsville over the objections of the World Court and Mexico. The US Supreme Court delayed the lethal injection four hours while it weighed his appeal, which focused on whether the convicted murderer-rapist was denied treaty-guaranteed help from the Mexican consulate when arrested in 1993.

  • This handout photo received in March 2008 courtesy of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in Austin shows death row inmate Jose Medellin. Texas has put to death the Mexican convicted murderer, defying a ruling from the International Court of Justice and ignoring a last-minute appeal from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.(AFP/TDCJ-HO/File)
    Texas executes Mexican in defiance of world court AFP - Wed Aug 6, 6:42 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Texas put to death a Mexican convicted murderer late Tuesday, defying a ruling from the International Court of Justice and ignoring a last-minute appeal from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

  • This handout photo received in March 2008 courtesy of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) in Austin shows death row inmate Jose Medellin. The US Supreme Court has rejected a last-ditch appeal by a Mexican muderer on Texas death row, paving the way for him to be put to death despite a world court order for a stay of execution(AFP/TDCJ-HO/File)
    US Supreme Court weighs Mexican man's execution AFP - Tue Aug 5, 8:44 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - A Mexican man facing execution for murder in Texas waited in a death row prison cell on for the US Supreme Court to decide on his last-ditch appeal in a case that has gained international attention.

  • This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Jose Medellin who is scheduled for execution at the Texas prison in Huntsville, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Texas officials remained adamant that Medellin, convicted in a gruesome gang rape-slaying in Houston, should be executed next week despite an international court's ruling saying he should be entitled to additional legal reviews because he's a Mexican citizen. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)
    Mexican citizen asks high court to block execution AP - Fri Aug 1, 11:40 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - Four months after losing his case at the Supreme Court, a Mexican citizen facing execution next week in Texas asked the justices Friday for a last-minute reprieve.